“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” executive producer Jeff Jenkins knows his morning news diet isn’t healthy, but it’s a function of the life that he’s chosen. “My alarm goes off, I pull out my laptop and the first thing I do is go to TMZ,” he says. That’s how he learns what his cast members were up to overnight — and how his day might go.

“It gives me a little head’s up before I get to the office,” says Jenkins, who notes that it’s not a new practice. A few years ago, as EP of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” the tabloids were his first stop to see what his then-lead Kim Kardashian was up to. Now, it’s “Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul who’s creating the headlines.

The legal troubles surrounding Paul — which has led to the temporary production stoppage on Season 5 of “Mormon Wives” in March — has been weighing heavily on Jenkins, even as he celebrates a big expansion of his company, Jeff Jenkins Prods. (which marks its eighth anniversary this fall).

Among those new projects, Variety has exclusively learned that Jenkins has partnered with Bell-Phillip Television Productions to develop “The Bold and the Unscripted,” a new reality competition series in which contestants compete to appear on “The Bold and the Beautiful” (with the ultimate winner receiving a recurring role on the soap). And he’s working with Tori Spelling and her brother, Randy, to create the series “Reunited: Tori & Randy Spelling,” in which the estranged siblings go on a cross-country road trip in an attempt to reconnect.

Also in the pipeline is…